Oberndorf () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Kitzbühel district The Bezirk Kitzbühel is an administrative district () in Tyrol, Austria. It borders Bavaria (Germany) in the north, the Kufstein and Schwaz districts in the west, and the Pinzgau region (Salzburg) in the east and south. Area of the district is 1, ...

in the

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

n state of

Tyrol Tyrol ( ; historically the Tyrole; ; ) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, f ...

. It is located in the Leukental valley, on the Kitzbühler Ache stream, halfway between St. Johann in Tirol and

Kitzbühel Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a town rights, medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol (state), Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbüh ...

. The municipality consists of a main village and several hamlets, reaching up to the Kitzbühler Horn mountain. Its neighbouring municipalities are

Going am Wilden Kaiser Going am Wilden Kaiser is a Municipality (Austria), municipality in the district of Kitzbühel (district), Kitzbühel in the Austrian region of Sölllandl. It is located 8.5 km northwest of Kitzbühel and 5 km west of Sankt Johann in Tir ...

Reith bei Kitzbühel Reith bei Kitzbühel is a municipality in the Kitzbühel district in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 4.50 km northwest of Kitzbühel Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a town rights, medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river ...

, and St. Johann in Tirol.

Population

Economy

Until the 18th century copper was mined at the Rerobichl. Today, economy is focused on

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, and a

quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mining, open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock (geology), rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some juri ...

. Oberndorf has a railway halt on the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway.

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Oberndorf Gigapixel Panorama (7.000 Megapixel)
Kitzbühel Alps Cities and towns in Kitzbühel District {{Tyrol-geo-stub